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Friday, December 14, 2012

Israel's Partisan Media

There's nothing objective about the Israeli media. They are firmly in the Left of the political spectrum and at this point will promote anything that will be bad for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud. It's most obvious on the Hebrew television channels, but the Jerusalem Post isn't immune either.

Yesterday, you could see Channel One's hyper-happy unscheduled newscast just drooling over the chance that Yisrael Beitenu's Avigdor Lieberman, the very popular Foreign Minister, who says what many people think may be forced to resign.

After A-G says he will indict Liberman for fraud, breach of trust, FM says he sees no reason to resign despite calls for him to do so.

Photo: Flash 90

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman responded defiantly on Thursday to Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein’s decision to charge him with fraud and breach of the public trust, while clearing him on more serious allegations including money-laundering and bribery.

Considering that the Israeli legal department has been trying to find something to charge him with for over a decade, the timing of this announcement is very suspicious.

He said he wanted to “set the record straight” and described himself as the victim of one long investigation that never let up for a single day since he became director of then-prime minister Netanyahu’s office in July 1996.
“Since July 1996, I’ve been under one long investigation, since then, not a single day has passed that I was not an investigative target...all part of one long investigation, with the name changing from time to time,” he said.

Carville is best known for his successful leadership of former President Bill Clinton’s first campaign in 1992. Prior to that he led several prominent U.S. Senate and gubernatorial campaigns in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Georgia. He has also been a lead consultant on international elections, including the successful campaign of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak in Israel in 1999.

7 comments:

Bs"DIt is very important to actively promote Otzma leYisrael , because the "establishment" of the religious camp seems to boycott it – next to no positive press in Arutz 7/BeSheva or in any of the Shabbat synagogue newssheets (עלוני שבת). The "establishment" of the religious camp are waging a very intense campaign to tell people that Otzma le Israel have no chance of making it, which can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There certainly are enough people who are prepared to vote for Otzma le Israel: in the Shomron, in the Gaza belt , in S. Tel Aviv (where Ben Ari has been working hard for the last 2 years), much of Habad, and many people who would have once voted for Gandhi, the Techia or even Lieberman.Happy Hanukkah,Yoni Gormezano